Comment This is part of a larger cultural problem (Score 1) 371
that power, by its very nature, must be kept from the people who perform the actual, useful work.
We've already tried that. Hoover after the 1929 crash let the free market work on its own. After 3 years of worsening depression, the people wanted a New Deal.
But it wasn't a free market. The FED - the very concept of which is antithetical to a free market - deliberately crashed it.
Getting education is not about mastering subjects, they are frequently irrelevant to what you end up doing. It is about developing ability to independently study abstract problem outside your knowledge domain and providing you with just enough bare-minimum knowledge that it is possible to self-educate yourself.
I'm going to have to disagree with you there. Maybe other colleges are different, but I learned nothing of the sort at MIT - I didn't learn how to learn, I didn't learn how to work hard. I got in (and graduated) because I already had these traits. And when I successfully went on to very technical work, it became clear almost immediately that I could have gone there strait from of high school, save for the fact that most employers expect you to first trade a large amount of money, and years of your life, for a small piece of paper.
I think the idea of college being able to add anything beyond practical skill (if you're lucky enough to get it) is a myth.
3 months off in the summer currently means that they spend the first month back getting back into the swing of schooling and relearning some of what they've forgotten.
Maybe that's true for shitty schools.
I remember always getting an ass-load of homework the first day back. You were expected to already know what you'd learned before.
For us, getting back into the swing of things took exactly 24 hours.
No. The universe does not close in on itself. That has been proven.
Citation needed. Care to share?
You don't, you really don't.
The Windows Phone Facebook app doesn't filter, it's the unadulterated feed that you claim to want. I don't have that many Facebook friends, but this feed is terrible. It includes all sorts of crap I don't want to see, like how my sister's Farmville farm is doing, and the latest "Share if you love Jesus" that my mom shared, and a boring video of my high school buddy's child playing soccer.
I like these people, I don't want to unfriend them because they genuinely do post things I want to see. But they also post crap. Facebook has figured out what I think is crap and does a good job of hiding that. And this is my definition of crap - my high school buddy's wife probably does want to see that soccer video.
I'm less sold on the chronological re-ordering that FB does. I'm glad that they're showing me just the stories that they think I care about, but it's confusing when something ten hours old shows up above something ten minutes old.
Dude. You can filter all game posts pretty easy. And I don't know how long it's been since you've used Facebook, but you don't need to unfriend people just to stop following their posts. I've found those two features perfectly adequate for my filtering needs.
Compared with tools we had 10 years ago or more, UIs have indeed improved significantly.
I don't know what crappy tools you've been using, bub, but the Visual Studio UI is roughly the same as it was 10 years ago (and no complaints).
I've noticed several design suggestions in your code.
